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Water & Sanitation

Real transaction · Water & Sanitation · 2012–

Nagpur 24×7 Water Supply PPP

₹387 crore (JNNURM-supported)2012–Nagpur Municipal Corporation → Orange City Water (Veolia–Vishvaraj)Nagpur, Maharashtra

India's first city-wide 24×7 water PPP: performance-based O&M with metered billing — the reference for every HAM/PPP water scheme since.

Footage · Dr Naresh Bana · YouTube

Key numbers

₹387 cr (approx.)

Project value

JNNURM-supported capex plus performance O&M

25 years

Concession tenure

Long-dated O&M with output-linked payments

approx. 2.4 million

Population covered

Full municipal area of Nagpur

~50% to <15% (approx.)

NRW reduction target

Baseline non-revenue water vs contracted target

100% (target)

Metering coverage

Universal volumetric metering replacing flat tariff

10 zones (approx.)

Supply zones

Phased zone-wise implementation strategy

Deal timeline

2011
NMC awards 25-year performance-based concession to Orange City Water (Veolia–Vishvaraj JV) after competitive bid.
2012
Concession commences; JNNURM grant support structured alongside O&M contract to fund network rehabilitation.
2014
Dharampeth pilot zone becomes first in India to achieve continuous 24×7 metered supply.
2016–2018
Phased rollout to additional zones; universal metering and leak-detection works accelerate.
2019–2021
Majority of city zones brought onto 24×7 supply; NRW levels reported to fall substantially from baseline.
2022 onward
Model referenced in DPRs for AMRUT 2.0 and state water-PPP frameworks across India.

Why it matters

Nagpur's 24×7 Water Supply PPP (2012–) was India's first city-wide, metered, pressurised water concession, structured as a performance-based O&M contract between Nagpur Municipal Corporation and Orange City Water (a Veolia–Vishvaraj JV), backed by JNNURM capital grants of approx. ₹387 crore. It proved that non-revenue-water reduction and volumetric billing could be delivered at municipal scale in India, becoming the template cited in nearly every subsequent HAM/PPP water and sanitation transaction.

What it means for NMP 2.0

As NMP 2.0 pushes water, sewerage and urban utility assets toward monetisation, Nagpur demonstrates a replicable structure: retain public ownership, transfer performance risk via long-tenor O&M contracts, and blend grant capital (now AMRUT 2.0) with private operational discipline. Cities structuring bulk-water, sewage-treatment or metering concessions can use this model to attract credible international operators while managing tariff-reform politics incrementally.

What it teaches

Structuring, finance and procurement lessons

Blend grant capex with performance O&M

JNNURM funded network rehabilitation while the operator was paid against measurable service KPIs (NRW, hours of supply, metering)—de-risking private capital while keeping public funding accountable to outcomes.

Phase by zone before city-wide scale-up

Piloting 24×7 supply in one zone before expanding built political and technical credibility, allowing tariff and metering resistance to be managed incrementally rather than city-wide at once.

Metering is the precondition for viable tariff reform

Volumetric billing only became defensible once universal metering was in place; structuring financing milestones around metering completion protects revenue assumptions in the concession model.

Anticipate political-economy risk in tariff design

Public opposition to 'water privatisation' required NMC to retain asset ownership and tariff-setting authority, with the operator strictly on an O&M/performance mandate—an important precedent for structuring around public perception.

Long tenor needs robust performance-payment linkage

A 25-year O&M concession requires clear, auditable KPI-linked payment mechanisms from year one to avoid renegotiation pressure once initial capex-heavy phases are complete.

Sources · Nagpur Municipal Corporation public disclosures and tender documents · Veolia India press releases and case-study publications · World Bank/ADB urban water sector reports referencing Nagpur PPP · Press coverage: Times of India, Down To Earth, Hindustan Times (Nagpur water PPP)

How Growthifye helps

Structuring performance-linked O&M/PPP contracts and KPI-based payment mechanisms for urban water and sanitation assets
Advising ULBs on blending AMRUT/VGF grant funding with private concession structures to optimise risk transfer
Benchmarking tariff and NRW-reduction targets against comparable Indian and global water PPP precedents

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